A special celebration

When we talk about celebrations there are lots of exisisting types of parties, graduations, reunions and so on where you can enjoy a good space of time usually accompanied by a large group of people.
I remember a special celebration that was held on the first half of 2005, when the new master plan of public transport for Santiago known as "Transantiago" was starting its first stage of implementation. On this "street party", there were lots of people standing through Alameda Bernardo O'Higgins avenue like from Los Héroes until La Moneda waiting for the first new buses to be presented by the authorities to the public. The buses were stopped all together at the corner of street Dieciocho, and when the drivers started to move, on the top of the Entel tower lots of fireworks started to blew out to conmemorate the relevance of this very important day for the begining of the transport plan. I think that this historical day was very important considering those times where most of people didn't have a massive access to instant information so they had to attend to that event to see the latest actions going out related to the plan. They also wanted to know what was happening and what kind of vehicles would they use in a near future, so I remember lots of happy people that were thinking that the new plan was a real solution for the transport issues that Santingo was having on those days. It was a good moment with my mom, her couple and my grandfather looking those fireworks.

A pair of buses with the first pattern of desing.

My taste of urban parks

When we are little kids, we usually get accompanied by an adult like our parents or other when we get outside our house and visit other places like a cinema, parts of the city, a commercial centre, an airport or whatever. So that, when my mom used to hang out through Santiago with me on her car, I always looked at San Cristobal hill and that place started to impress me with its massive presence of vegetation until the highest peak, where the virgin lies, that was my initial contact with an example of a huge urban park and so I wanted to visit some place like it when I reached an older age so I could walk through the city alone. Analyzing the current times, the fact of visiting many parks is one of my favorite activities not only in cities but also on other natural places that have lots of other flora and fauna species that you can't see on a loud and polluted area as Santiago, but that doesn't mean that the capital city does not have many parks with a good standard of equipment and ecosystemic services that helps not only people in topics like their health or activities, but also has many other functions like regulation of temperatures, caption and filtration of water or moisture, fertility and quality of soils, provision of an environment for many species as well as other functions that may sustain a well working ecosystem. Try to visit as many parks as possible, it is the main way to take advantage of their usefull services so the respective authorities can manage this kind of places as good as possible.

San Cristobal hill, Santiago, Chile (looking north east)

A few plans for the month of Chile

Hi guys, this time I will give you a short resume of my plans for this “18” holidays. First of all, after ending all my pending works for the university by this Saturday, I’m planning to get out of my house along with two friends or more to visit Batuco’s wetland by riding our bikes, specially they because they recently bought new mountain bikes to do more frequent physical exercises, so we think that the route may be a good way to improve our performance to travel many kilometers by bike. After Sunday, I’ll visit my best uncle house in Puente Alto along with most part of my family so we can enjoy the “18”, but there are some things I don’t like, mostly the massive consumption of meat and some traditions that exalt the patriotism in Chile. The thing about that, I personally like some good activities during this days where you can see people happy and interacting each other, even now that the country has a lot of immigrants that can mix their cultures and enjoy our celebrations so we can all be part of good relations, considering that this topic is used for some sick people to show hate against others. I will also try to not drink so much alcohol because I don’t have a good resistance to its effects, you must do the same for your health. Have a happy 18!!

Some elements used during the national holidays

A massive urban park that you must visit at least once in your life!

When I think about a tourist or an interest spot when you visit some place, my first tough is to consider urban parks around many cities that I know as a primordial whereabout when you live in that place or when you are travelling. I my case, the most amazing park that I ever visited in my life was the famous Central Park, located in Manhattan, New York. I went there a few months ago, during a break week in my regular semester in the university, specifically on the first days of May. It was just me during the trip, not a single person accompanied me. About some activities that I did there, it wasn’t so many because I got into the park during the evening when the night was starting, and adding the fact that the park has huge dimensions (4km long and 800m wide), I was not able to walk through its entire space, so I made the decision to cross it following a north-south path that passed along a big artificial lagoon placed on its center. Even though it was a bit dark, I could see so many species of birds and animals like squirrels that run freely over the massive meadows inside. It was such a great visit from the start to the end, I really enjoyed my experience because I had never visited such a big park before, and adding the plus of being a massive park placed in the middle of one of the most populated and densified cities in the world, so you can have a comfortable moment of contact with nature to avoid the noise, lights and traffic that are present all over New York.

Central Park, Manhattan, New York City.